The name Old High Theech (OHT, Theech: Althochdeutsch, shortened Ahd.; English: Old High German) bespeaks the earliest time of the Theech tung and it often overlays the timespan from about 500 to 1050. Fast writs do not show up until the other half of the 8th yearhundred, and some handle the time before 750 as 'fore-eretidely' and put the beginning of true Old High Theech to 750 for this ground. There are, however, scores of Elder Futhark writings from the 6th yearhundred (as a forebisen the Pforzen buckle), as well as lone words and monny names found in Leeden writs before the 8th yearhundred.
Samedsweyers[]
The main unlikeness between Old High Theech and the West Theedish bytungs from which it grew is that it underwent the Twoth Loud Shift or High Theech withloud shift. This is overall put wary roughly to the late 5th and early 6th yearhundreds - hence putting the start of OHT to about 500. The outcome of this loud-shift is that the withloud framework of Theech belives unsame from all other West Theedish tungs, inholding English and Low Theech. Stavecraftly, however, Old High Theech belived much alike to Old English, Old Frankish and Old Saxish.
By the mid 11th yearhundred the monny unsame clepends found in unhighlighted loudteams had all been lessened to 'e'. Since these clepends were a deal of the stavecraftly endings in the namewords and deedwords, their loss led to steep fewfolding of the shiftingly stavecraft of Theech. For the sake of these grounds, 1050 is seen as the start of the Middle High Theech time, though indeed there are almost no writings in Theech for the next hundred years.
Forebisens of clepend lessening in unhighlighted loudteams:
Old High Theech | Middle High Theech | New High Theech | English |
machôn | machen | machen | to make, to do |
taga | tage | Tage | days |
demu | dem(e) | dem | to the |
(The New Theech builds of these words are broadly the same as in Middle High Theech.)
Bytungs[]
There was no shared or over-landshiply kind of Old High Theech; every writ is written in a known bytung, or sometimes a blending of bytungs. Broadly speaking, the head bytung splits of Old High Theech seem to have been alike to those of later times; they are grounded on settled landly teamings and the deeds of the Twoth Loud Shift, which have belived swaying until today. But since the straight showingness for Old High Theech is made up only of writings made in a few big churchly midspots, there is no bytung-sundriness word of the kind on which new bytung maps are grounded. Forthen the OHT bytungs may be named "minster bytungs" (Theech Klosterdialekte).
The main OHT bytungs, with their bishoprics and minsters:
- Middle Theech
- Middle Frankish: Trier, Echternach, Coleyn
- Rhine Frankish: Lorsch, Speyer, Worms, Mainz, Frankford
- South Rhine Frankish: Weißenburg im Elsass
- East Frankish (High Frankish): Fulda, Bambarrow, Wortsburgh
- Thuringish: (no writings)
- West Frankish: likely bytung of the Franks in Northern Gallwales
- Upper Theech
There are some weighty unlikenesses between the landlorely spread of the Old High Theech bytungs and that of New Theech:
- No Theech bytungs were spoken east of the eas Elbe and Saale - in the OHT timespan this land had Winnetish folks and was not settled by Theech speakers until the 12th yearhundred* the Lombardish bytung of the Lombards who overran Northern Italy in the 6th yearhundred is thought to have been an Upper Theech bytung, though little showingness of it belives aside from names and onesome words in Leeden writs, and a few writings.
Frankish[]
The Franks overwon Northern Gallwales as far south as the Loire; the speechcraftly border later steadied roughly along the flow of the Maas and Mosel, with Frankish speakers further west becoming Roomanish speakers. However, Frankish is a standout among the old West Theedish tungs, the Frankish theeds build their rich at the same time as the High Theech withloud shift happened. This meant that the bytungs of Frankish in the North of their rich, the Lowlands, did not shift while the bytungs in the South did. The bytungs in the south are a deal of Old High Theech, the ones in the North are deal of Old Frankish.
With Churl the Great's loss of the Lombards in 776, nearly all mainland Theech speaking folks had been inwrought into the Frankish rich, thus also bringing all mainland West Theedish speakers under Frankish leadership. However, since the tung of both the rich and the Church was Leeden, this togethering did not lead to any growth of an over-landshiply kind of Frankish.
Writings[]
The early share of the time saw heeding errandboder deeds, and by 800 the whole of the Frankish Rich had, guessingly, been christened. All the writings which inhold Old High Theedish writs were written in churchly writingrooms by draughtsmen whose main errand was writing in Leeden rather than Theedish. Thereby, the greaterhood of Old High Theech writings are worshipsome and show strong swaying of Church Leeden on the wordstock. In truth, most outlasting prose writings are wendings of Leeden stemwrits. Even worldly works such as the Hildebrandslied are often kept only since they were written on spare sheets in worshipsome erebooks.
The earliest OHT writing is overall taken to be the Abrogans, a Leeden-Old High Theech wordlist sundrily put between 750 and 780, most likely from Reichenau. The 8th hundredyear Merseburgh Spellcraftspeaks are the only leftover of fore-Christlike Theedish booklore. The earliest writings not hanging on Leeden stemwrits would seem to be the Hildebrandslied and the Wessobrunn Bead, both written in writings of the early 9th hundredyear, though the writings are thought to stem from earlier deals.
The Bairish Muspilli is the only outlaster of what must have been a broad spoken folklore. Other weighty works are the Evangelienbuch (Gospel banding) of Otfrid of Weissenburg, the short but wonderful Ludwigslied and the 9th hundredyear Georgslied. The border to Early Middle High Theech (from about 1050) is not clear-cut. The most sightly forebisen of EMHT booklore is the Annolied.
Lodestars[]
The Lord's Bead in three OHT bytungs. Since these are oversettings of a churchly worshipsome writ, they are best not taken as forebisens of lively tung, but they do show bytung sundriness wary starkly.
Allmannish, 8th hundredyear | South Rhine Frankish, 9th hundredyear | East Frankish, about 830 |
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The St Gall Lord's Prayer | Weissenburg Christhandbook | OHT Tatian |
Fater unseer, thu pist in himile, |
Fater unsēr, thu in himilom bist, |
Fater unser, thū thār bist in himile, |
Stem: Braune/Ebbinghaus, Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, 17th wending (Niemeyer, 1994)
See also[]
- Middle High Theech
- Middle-elthly Theech booklore
Outward links[]
- Joseph Wright, An Old High Theech Futharkbook – whole writ of 1906 work (English)
- A Short Gathering of Old High Theech (English)
- Althochdeutsche Texte im Internet (8.–10. Jahrhundert) - links to a reach of online writs (Theedish)
- LiTLiNks: althochdeutche Texte - thorough listing of OHT writs with links to online makes. (Theedish)
Stems[]
- Althochdeutches Lesebuch, wenders W.Braune, K.Helm, E.A.Ebbinghaus, 17th wending, Tübingen 1994. ISBN 3-484-10707-3
- J. Knight Bostock, A Handbook on Old High German Literature, 2nd wending, looked again by K.C.King and D.R.McLintock, Oxford 1976. ISBN 0-19-815392-9
- R.E.Keller, The German Language, London 1978. ISBN 0-571-11159-9
- Lexikon der Germanistischen Linguistik, wenders Hans Peter Althaus, Helmut Henne, Herbert Ernst Weigand, 2nd againlooked wending, Tübingen 1980. ISBN 3-484-10396-5
- S.Sonderegger, Althochdeutsche Sprache und Literatur, de Gruyter 1974 ISBN 3-11-004559-1
- C.J.Wells, German. A Linguistic History to 1945, Oxford 1987. ISBN 0-19-815809-2
Kin of tungs | Tungs |
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Ind-Europish tungs | |
Theedish tungs | North Theedish tungs: Faroish - Norish - Icelandish (High Icelandish) - Old Norse - Old Gutnish - South Jutish - Danish - Swedish - Gutnish (moot) - Elfdalish (moot) - Norn tung (dead) West Theedish tungs: Weser-Rhine Theedish tungs: Old Low Frankish - Netherlandish - Highsunlandish tung - Zeelandish - Flemish (moot) Elbe Theedish tungs: Old High Theech - Theech tung - Allmenish - Bairish - Wymysorys tung - Lombardish (dead) - Littleburgish - Yiddish - Ripuarish North Sea Theedish tungs: Saxish (Old Saxish - Middle Low Saxish - Low Saxish) | English (Old English - Middle English - Latterday English - Anglish (moot) - Lowland Scottish - Northumberish tung (moot) Cumberish tung (moot) - Yola) | Friesish (Old Friesish - Western Friesish - Northern Friesish - Saterland Friesish) East Theedish tungs (dead): Gottish tung - Wendish tung - Burgundish tung |
Celtish tungs | Mainland Celtish tungs (dead): Galatish - Gaulish - Celtiberish - Gallaicish - Lepontish - East Celtish tung Gelish tungs: Irish - Scottish Gelish - Manx tung Brythonish tungs: Cornish - Welsh - Breton tung Other: Shelta |
Balt-Windish tungs | Windish tungs: East Windish tungs: Russish - Ukrainish - White Russish -Russinish West Windish tungs: Slesish - Polish - Bohemish (a.k.a. Checkish) - Slovakish - Kashubish - West Pomeranish (dead) - Polabish/Onelbish (dead) - Upper Sorbish - Lower Sorbish South Windish tungs: Serb-Croatish (Serbish - Blackbarrowish - Bosnish - Croatish) - Bulgarish - Macedonish - Slovenish Baltish tungs: Eastern Baltish tungs: Lettish - Latgalish (moot) - Lithuish - Samogitish (moot) - Selonish (dead) - Zemgalish (dead) - Courlandish (dead) Western Baltish tungs (dead): Old Prussish - Sudovish - Western Galindish - Skalvish? Eastern Galindish (dead) |
Italish tungs | Sabellish tungs (dead): Umbrish - Osckish - Volscish - Sabinish? - South Picenish - Marsish - Fore-Samnitish
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Hellenish tungs | Greekish - Tsakonish - Yevanish |
Ind-Iranish tungs | Ind-Aryish: (Hindlandish offshoots: Hindish - Urdu tung) - Punjabish - Sindhish - Mean Rajasthanish - Gujaratish - Romani tungs - Kashmirish - Nepalish - Chhattisgarhish - Bhojpurish - Maithili tung - Odia tung - Bengalish - Assamish - Marathi tung - Singhalish - Maldivish
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Anatolish tungs | Hettitish - Palaish Luvish - Lykish - Milyish - Carish - Sidetish - Pisidish - Lydish |
Other Ind-Europish | Albanish - Armenish - Thracish (dead) - Dacish (dead) - Lusitanish (dead) - Illyrish (dead) - Messapish (dead) - Frygish (dead) - Paionish (dead) - Mysish (dead) - Liburnish (dead) - Cimmerish (dead) - Sicelish? (dead) |
Afrosunriselandish tungs | |
Semitish tungs | Amharish - Arabish - Aramaish - Hebrew - Assyrish |
Uralish tungs | |
Balt-Fennish | Estish - Finnish - Sami tungs - Livonish (deathbound) - Karelish - Vepsish - Ludish (moot) - Votish (deathbound) - Izhorish (deathbound) |
Ugrish? | Ungarish - Chantish - Mansish |
Turkish tungs | |
Oghuz | Mickleyard Turkish - Azerish - Turkmen tung |
Karluk | Uzbek tung - Uyghur tung |
Khalaj | Khalaj tung |
Oghur | Chuvash tung - Hunnish tung? (dead) - Avar tung? (dead) |
Siberish | Sakha tung - Tuvish tung - Khakas tung - Chulym tung |
Kipchak | Kazakh tung - Kyrgyz tung - Tatar tung - Krimlandish Tatar tung |
Japonish tungs | |
Japanish tung - Ryukyu tungs (moot) | |
Mongolish tungs | |
Khalkha tung - Buryat tung | |
Southialandish tungs | |
Philippine | Philipslandish - Yami tung - Ivatan tung |
Malayish | Malay tung - Indonesish tung - Mualang tung |
Polynesish | Tongish - Samoish - Marquesish - Firelandish - Tahitish - Maorish |
Sinitish-Tibetish tungs | |
Sinitish | Chinesish |
Tibetish-Burmish | Burmish - Tibetish - Dzongkha tung |
Niger-Congo tungs | |
Swahilish - Yorubish tung - Zulu tung | |
Koreish tungs | |
Koreish - Jeju tung | |
Southasiatish tungs | |
Vietnamish | |
Forbinded tungs | Papiamento tung |
Lone tungs | |
Baskish - Ainu tung | |
Other | |
Cherokee tung - Canaman Folktung - Esperantish tung (crafted) - Etruscish tung (dead) - Folkspraak tung (crafted) - Greenlandish tung - Toki Pona Tung (crafted) - Volapuk (crafted) |